The Texas band ETERNAL CHAMPION started out all the way back in 2008, but their debut ‘The Armor of Ire’ in 2016 that really saw them starting to generate massive popularity. Lead singer James Tarpey’s clean retro vocals create the perfect epic atmosphere, and the crushing riffs from Blake Ibanez (Power Trip) will send your neck muscles into overdrive when you listen to the band’s classic heavy metal, which is lifted directly from the genre’s golden age in the ‘80s. Their thematic inspiration comes from the writer Michael Moorcock’s fantasy novel series with the same name, so you can expect to hear grand and atmospheric compositions resound within the prison walls.